OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux Port

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jun 07, 1999
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Robert Craig wrote:

> We'll try hard to accommodate Llama, or whatever
> you may come up with next. I need to do some more research
> on this. I'm sure you'll guide me. At the moment, I'm concentrating
> on getting the wrinkles out of the vanilla, non GUI stuff.
> Currently,  the Linux version lets you display 25x80 text,
> with positioning to any line/column, and using colors for  the foreground
> and background of each character. There's no
> pixel-graphics yet. The core Euphoria language is working
> fine. It's the O/S-specific library routines that need some work.
> Linking to C routines in shared libraries should be possible,
> but hasn't been implemented yet.

Just what you have working now would be enough for me to port
a bunch of my old DOS accounting programs to Linux. That will
make a couple of clients very happy, as they will avoid the
oncoming W2K crisis(1).

(1) Windows 2000

Regards,
Irv (hope I'm on your beta-tester list)